Sure, they have the Braves, but it's a third-rate symphony.

The game was held in New York, your argument is invalid

Farkin A Bubba: This jackass disparages sweet tea and pork barbecue. I must ask him why he hates America, even if he is spot on with the rest of his diatribe.

Agreed. Bashing sweet tea and pork barbecue? That's a beating.

Lived down south for 7 years-miss that meal.

downstairs: Thats because there is just about zero civic pride in the city. For anything. The whole place is a strip mall.

I'd bet most of the population is there because they were transfered there because of work.

Nobody actually likes Atlanta because there is nothing to like.

/Worst vacation ever
//Visiting friends of the family

The city tore down almost everything in the 60s and 70s, in the process pretty much got rid of anything worth a damn downtown, it only stopped when people got on board to stop them from tearing down the fox theater. Its a shame they tore down a ton of buildings that would be considered historic in the name of setting up a "new south". In the process they drove everyone away that had connections to the city and its history, now the downtown area south of north avenue looks like a flea market which nobody wants to be near. I know 4 people that were either born or at least raised here and one or them was me, the rest of the city is from an area that was economically depressed so they had to move here. I find it strange they have loyalty to the shiathole that let them down and accept new teams, its ironic that tourists to europe get told to embrace local customs instead of forcing theirs on the new destination.

We do have college football in the south, which makes most pro teams take a back seat, barkley should know that since he went to auburn.

Oh and who would vacation here? Even it was for family I would just tell them to drive to Florida or savannah instead of the city made out of strip malls.

I get the feeling this was submitted by a taints fan jealous over our state having the original southern charm city before new orleans.

robsul82: steamingpile: I get the feeling this was submitted by a taints fan jealous over our state having the original southern charm city before new orleans.

LOL, yes, a city teeming with culture is jealous over an airport hub.

Take your 0-3 and like it, farking loser.

Seriously. New Orleans being jealous of Atlanta? That's like NYC being jealous of Newark.

Farkin A Bubba: This jackass disparages sweet tea and pork barbecue. I must ask him why he hates America, even if he is spot on with the rest of his diatribe.

The only people that don't like pork barbeque are people that have never had barbeque in Memphis. After that you learn all other barbeque is heresy.

Subby, wrong tag. Obvious tag instead of assinine.

It's frustrating that there's so many empty seats at Braves games, because the team really does a lot of things right, or at least did when I lived there.

-They let you bring your own food/drink in the ballpark to avoid paying ballpark prices.
-They run a free (with subway pass) shuttle from the downtown subway hub to the ballpark so you don't have to worry about parking.
-For many games they'll offer tickets at a discount if it looks like there'll be a bunch of seats left over. Some nosebleed seats go for $1 on same-day ticket sales.

UncleStumpy: Subby, wrong tag. Obvious tag instead of assinine.

asinine

/sticky s button
//don't ask how it got sticky

downstairs: steamingpile: I get the feeling this was submitted by a taints fan jealous over our state having the original southern charm city before new orleans.

I really shouldn't be investing my time in this... but I have to believe this is now the dumbest thing I've heard on Fark.

I know of no single person in New Orleans (I live here, so I know hundreds) who is jealous of any other city or state. Why would we be? We live in New Orleans!

You must not have seen many of his other posts.

/Jerry Jones never played football.
//Aaron Rodgers will go back to sucking soon.

John Buck 41: FTA--What Parker failed to mention was the passion associated with college sports in metro Atlanta with yearly sellouts of the SEC championship game and the Chick-fil-A Bowl at the Georgia Dome.

So? It's college.

The 'Chick-fil-A Bowl'? Are we supposed to take that seriously, w/o laughing our MFing asses off?

And it's out of towners when Georgia isn't playing.

downstairs: I'd bet most of the population is there because they were transfered there because of work.

Yes indeedy ... at least there are enough decent restaurants to survive ...

downstairs: Thats because there is just about zero civic pride in the city. For anything. The whole place is a strip mall.

I'd bet most of the population is there because they were transfered there because of work.

Nobody actually likes Atlanta because there is nothing to like.

/Worst vacation ever
//Visiting friends of the family

yeah the last Falcons game I went to in the Ga dome had just as many Steelers fans there as Falcons

downstairs: steamingpile: I get the feeling this was submitted by a taints fan jealous over our state having the original southern charm city before new orleans

Atlanta founded: December 29, 1847
New Orleans founded: May 7, 1718

No idea where you're going with any of this... you bashed modern Atlanta in your original post?

No it was directed to savanna which was part of the us before new orleans, also atlanta was around before then just under a different name.

And its also obvious other new orleans people are jealous since they submit 2-3 threads every nfl game day to biatch about a game few us give a shiat about any longer.

Hopefully the next hurricane wipes the whole city off the map, I'm amazed their fans still support them since they were close to being the san antonio saints.

12349876: John Buck 41: FTA--What Parker failed to mention was the passion associated with college sports in metro Atlanta with yearly sellouts of the SEC championship game and the Chick-fil-A Bowl at the Georgia Dome.

So? It's college.

The 'Chick-fil-A Bowl'? Are we supposed to take that seriously, w/o laughing our MFing asses off?

And it's out of towners when Georgia isn't playing.

Exactly. Atlanta is a major air hub with lots of cheap flights. Georgia Tech football rarely sells out and that's based in Atlanta.

John Buck 41: The 'Chick-fil-A Bowl'? Are we supposed to take that seriously, w/o laughing our MFing asses off?


Listen. You can talk shiate about Atlanta. You can talk shiate about the Southeast in general. Most of it is deserved. But when you make fun of Chick-fil-A, you have crossed the line.

Hopefully, you will one day get to experience the sheer joy that is an original Chick-fil-A sandwich so that you will understand the error of your ways. Until then, just know that there is nothing in the northeastern United States that can compare to the deliciousness that you will find at a Chick-fil-A restaurant.

downstairs: When I was there we ate nothing but bland terrible food. But the places we went were not my choice. Hint: they thought P F changs was awesome high end Asian cuisine.

Pro tip: your friends/colleagues have crappy taste. If you can't find a good meal in Atlanta, you're either (1) not in Atlanta (i.e., Alpharetta), or (2) you're not trying

I'm pretty sure I can eat at nothing but chain places in New Orleans too if I wanted. But I'd be retarded if I tried to argue the food in New Orleans is terrible.

kevinatilusa: It's frustrating that there's so many empty seats at Braves games, because the team really does a lot of things right, or at least did when I lived there.

What is ironic is that atlanta averages in the 20-25K range for braves games during the week, not much less than the cubs and they are considered rabid fans, I think its mainly because wrigley field holds a lot less, turner field holds quite a few more people, around 10-12K with most being the newer layout that slopes up so more seats are field level. Its not that empty but the 80s were and it was more fun! That being said, would you rather go to numerous baseball games, fight the crowd, traffic, pay $10 a beer or just sit at home and watch it for free drinking a case?

Hobodeluxe: yeah the last Falcons game I went to in the Ga dome had just as many Steelers fans there as Falcons

Well a game with one of the teams with the most fans in the NFL is not a good gauge, even before then atlanta was right there with jacksonville and tampa(before dungy) with having black out games on sunday.

downstairs: When I was there we ate nothing but bland terrible food. But the places we went were not my choice. Hint: they thought P F changs was awesome high end Asian cuisine.

Let me guess, they were up near roswell/alpharetta area? That place sucks, I have gotten gift certificates there and regifted them to another employee. With our asian population there is no reason to eat at that shiatty chain.

carnifex2005: Atlanta is a major air hub with lots of cheap flights.

You would think but we dont have a lot of cheap flights, delta sucks and screws us on fares, they also keep most airlines out of hartsfield so they have less competition.

Lifeless: /Jerry Jones never played football.
//Aaron Rodgers will go back to sucking soon.

Oh and those are right, jerry jones was not that great of a football player, all-american means shiat since there were so many publications giving that out, more telling is how he never played a down after college when pro football was taking off and I think matt flynn proved how valuable rogers is to GB, as in, not very.

FreakinB: As a lifelong New Yorker...agreed. Chick-fil-A truly excellent. But it is a ridiculous name for a football game.


Yep. The game used to be called the Peach Bowl for decades. Then, it was the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl. Now, it's just the Chick-fil-A Bowl. If bowl officials weren't such whores, things like this wouldn't happen (e.g., Tostidas Fiesta Bowl, Discovery Orange Bowl, Rose Bowl Game Presented by Vizio).

Guidette Frankentits: The game was held in New York, your argument is invalid

new jersey technically

downstairs: Thats because there is just about zero civic pride in the city. For anything. The whole place is a strip mall.

This is pretty much spot on. It is not a beautiful city at all and everything is built in the cheapest, kitschiest way possible. I really hate to bash it because there is so much potential but it really is a tacky parking lot.

New Orleans has Mardi Gras, a week long party that is world famous.
Atlanta has (had) Freaknik, where blacks from all over came to run amuck and riot for a week, until they finally banned it.

/Original Southern Charm my ass. You could burn the place to the ground again and run the airport out of Macon and nobody would ever know the difference.

Tampa, Miami and Jacksonville would like to have some words with you.

/Coincidentally all are in Florida

Just moved from Atlanta after 20 years and DRTFA.

Atlanta fans suck.

First, find someone actually from Atlanta. That's a huge challenge. There aren't many of them, and the remainder who are big sports fans show up to see their team play the Braves, Falcons and Hawks... (as well as the Yellow Jackets).

I like the city - but it isn't a great city.

Glad to be gone, but the spousal unit really misses it.

Bronzed War God: Just moved from Atlanta after 20 years and DRTFA.

Atlanta fans suck.

First, find someone actually from Atlanta. That's a huge challenge. There aren't many of them, and the remainder who are big sports fans show up to see their team play the Braves, Falcons and Hawks... (as well as the Yellow Jackets).

I like the city - but it isn't a great city.

Glad to be gone, but the spousal unit really misses it.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out! I'm from Georgia and routinely see my teams play (except for the gnats at the North Avenue Trade School). ASK ME ANYTHING

/My kingdom for an offensive line!

downstairs: nucal: downstairs: I'd bet most of the population is there because they were transfered there because of work.

Yes indeedy ... at least there are enough decent restaurants to survive ...

When I was there we ate nothing but bland terrible food. But the places we went were not my choice. Hint: they thought P F changs was awesome high end Asian cuisine.

Buford Highway has plenty of great Asian restaurants - and then there's this place (new window)

nucal: downstairs: nucal: downstairs: I'd bet most of the population is there because they were transfered there because of work.

Yes indeedy ... at least there are enough decent restaurants to survive ...

When I was there we ate nothing but bland terrible food. But the places we went were not my choice. Hint: they thought P F changs was awesome high end Asian cuisine.

Buford Highway has plenty of great Asian restaurants - and then there's this place (new window)

This this this this

/I live close to Indiatown on Lawrenceville Highway. I wish I could eat nothing else

I'm from Atlanta. I've lived in or around the city for my entire life. And, when thinking about my friends or acquaintances my age or throughout school, the number of them that were born AND raised in this area is extremely small.

There just aren't generations of fans like in other cities.

I will continue to live and die with my teams just like all of you other motherf*ckers. So, stuff it.

If you can't find good food in Atlanta, you are a retard.

Yes, we know the Varsity sucks. Yes, there are lots of waffle houses. We don't f*cking eat there, either.

It takes two seconds to find Chops or Bone's or Fogo or Honey Pig or even something small like Greenwood's and Swallow at the Hollow

downstairs: steamingpile: I get the feeling this was submitted by a taints fan jealous over our state having the original southern charm city before new orleans.

I really shouldn't be investing my time in this... but I have to believe this is now the dumbest thing I've heard on Fark.

I know of no single person in New Orleans (I live here, so I know hundreds) who is jealous of any other city or state. Why would we be? We live in New Orleans!

I can imagine you all would have traded places with someone in Mogadishu, for a few months back in 2005.

/I'll take the window.
\\Just sayin'

I have no problem being one of the few people at any Falcons or Hawks games. Makes it easier to get a seat. I do digress though, if it's a big name team opposing the Braves, Braves fans do show up most of the time, especially on the weekend! Been to many Phillies/Braves games at the Ted, easily averages 40K+ Friday-Sunday games. I anticipate sellouts when the Red Sox and Yankees come to town this season. I also try to attend at least one Falcons game each year. Also, attended my first UGA game this season as well as the SEC championship game and WrestleMania 27. Dedicated fans live OUTSIDE of Atlanta, not in Atlanta. Most don't want to or can't travel to Atlanta frequently. I believe a lot in Gwinnett would travel to the games if they would stop denying access to Marta at least up to Jimmy Carter Blvd off I-85.